1587 – 2nd English colony forms on Roanoke Island off North Carolina.
1796 – Cleveland, Ohio, founded by General Moses Cleveland.
1893 – Katherine Lee Bates writes “America the Beautiful” in Colorado.
1918 – Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah’s Wasatch National Park.
1923 – Walter Johnson becomes 1st to strikeout 3,000 (en route to 3,508)
1934 – Outside Chicago’s Biograph Theatre, “Public Enemy No.1” John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
1937 – US Senate rejects FDR’s proposal to enlarge Supreme Court.
1942 – Gasoline rationing using coupons begins.
1943 – US forces led by General Patton liberate Palermo, Sicily.
1955 – Richard Nixon becomes the first US Vice President to preside over a cabinet meeting.
1960 – Cuba nationalizes all US-owned sugar factories.
1963 – Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in 1 for heavyweight boxing title.
1975 – US House of Representatives votes to restore citizenship to General Robert E. Lee.
1986 – US House of Representatives impeaches Judge Harry E. Claiborne for tax evasion.
1990 – 90th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Phil Mickelson.
1991 – Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to killing 17 men in 1978.
1994 – O.J. Simpson pleads “Absolutely 100% Not Guilty” of murder.
1995 – Susan Smith found guilty of drowning her two children in South Carolina.
1997 – Greg Maddux throws a complete game with just 76 pitches.
2016 – Hillary Clinton announces Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her Vice Presidential running mate.
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